Reviews

The View from Daniel Pike

The View from Daniel Pike (1971)

The View from Daniel Pike

Broadcast by BBC Scotland between 1971 and 1973, The View from Daniel Pike is one of those regional dramas that managed to be both quietly groundbreaking and criminally overlooked outside its home turf

Vikings

Vikings (2013)

Vikings

Ragnar Lothbrok, a legendary Norse hero, is a mere farmer who rises up to become a fearless warrior and commander of the Vikings...

Villains TV series

Villains (1972)

Villains TV series

Nine prisoners escape from prison and go on the run. But can they escape capture?

Virgin of the Secret Service

Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)

Virgin of the Secret Service

English agent Captain Robert Virgin of the Royal Dragoons, is intent on defending the British Empire, or what little remains of it, on behalf of the British Secret Service.

Virgin River

Virgin River (2019)

Virgin River

Seeking a fresh start, a nurse practitioner moves from Los Angeles to a remote town thinking it will be the perfect place to start afresh. But she soon doscivers that small-town living isn't as simple as she expected...

The Virginian

The Virginian (1962)

The Virginian

Set on the Shiloh Ranch in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the stories centred around the ranch foreman known only as The Virginian and his impulsive young friend, Trampas.

Vision On

Vision On (1964)

Vision On

British children's television programme designed specifically for deaf and hearing children.

W1A

W1A (2014)

W1A

Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC in this BAFTA-winning comedy series.

Wacky Races

Wacky Races (1968)

Wacky Races

Animated series where contestants lined up each week to claim the title of the 'World's Wackiest Racer.'

Wagon Train

Wagon Train (1957)

Wagon Train

The adventures of a wagon train as it makes its way from Missouri to California.

Waiting for God

Waiting for God (1990)

Waiting for God

Diana and Tom are two cantankerous residents at a retirement home who keep the staff, especially slimy manager Harvey, very much on their toes.

Walker, Texas Ranger

Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)

Walker, Texas Ranger

Chuck Norris stars as a member of the Texas Ranger Division, keeping law and order in the Code of the Old West - utilising his skills as a martial arts expert - of course

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead (2010)

The Walking Dead

Post-apocalyptic horror series based on the comic book of the same name which ran for 11 seasons and inspired several spin-offs

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)

Walking with Dinosaurs

Multi award-winning nature documentary series inspired by the film Jurassic Park - using CGI, animatronics and live-action footage to depict a time before humankind walked the Earth in the era of the dinosaur

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1966)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Harold Crombie (Robert Lang) is something of a nonentity-the sort of man who merges into the background so well that even his office colleagues barely notice he's there.

The Walrus and the Carpenter

The Walrus and the Carpenter (1965)

The Walrus and the Carpenter

BBC sitcom about two septuagenarians who refuse to grow old gracefully. Years later the same theme was revisited even more successfully by Roy Clarke in Last of the Summer Wine.

The Waltons

The Waltons (1972)

The Waltons

The everyday life of a family of 11 living in rural Virginia during the depression.

WandaVision

WandaVision (2021)

WandaVision

Three weeks after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Wanda Maximoff and Vision are living an idyllic suburban life in the town of Westview, New Jersey, trying to conceal their true natures

The War Game

The War Game (1965)

The War Game

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

The War of Darkie Pilbeam (1976)

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

For most families the 1940s consisted of air-raid shelters, the sound of ack-ack and rationing. Some people profiteered - people like Darkie Pilbeam.

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds (2019)

The War of the Worlds

"Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

War on Crime

War on Crime (1951)

War on Crime

One of the first crime series on British television and the forerunner to today's police procedural dramas.

Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 (2009)

Warehouse 13

The final shot of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - in which the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is revealed as just one among thousands of crates in a huge hangarlike building - is basically the premise of Warehouse 13.

A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious (1972)

A Warning to the Curious

A ghostly tale in which a treasure hunter visits the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister

Warrior Nun

Warrior Nun (2020)

Warrior Nun

When an orphaned teen wakes up in a morgue she discovers that a divine artefact has been embedded in her back. The powers it gives her means that she is now the Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns

The Watch tv series

The Watch (2020)

The Watch tv series

Fantasy police procedural inspired by the Discworld series. Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized